22-Pistepirkko

22-PP, well that's a long story. To cut it short. The trio from Utajärvi, north of Finland, were probably the most important underground pop band from Finland. They've been around for over 35 years, but now on a hiatus, celebrated with 2 jam packed funeral concert in Helsinki, on 22.08.2015 The two brothers Asko and PK Keränen, together with their friend from childhood days, Espe are for Finland something between what The Kinks have been for the UK or Suicide for the US. Highly regarded, influential and advanced, but not mirrored by long-lasting commercial success during their artistical peaks.

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” 22-Pistepirkko operates with the skewed perspective that´s only gained at a vast distance from the beating heart of rock. What they play is a pop of a kind with no allegiance to any particular era, but of vaguely maverick bent.” (Stuart Maconie, Q MAGAZINE, UK)

US Rolling Stone editor David Fricke wrote in his liner notes to The Singles Boxset:“…Imagine if the early classic-riff Kinks had been a power trio. Or the Ramones had been Cream. Or Cream had been around long enough to make their 1967 psychedelic delicacy, Disraeli Gears, with the city-life soul of the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, the pure-pop gleam of Big Star and the beatnik-hip-hop fallout from Beck’s Odelay. 22 Pistepirkko (...) have been all that and more, with hits, since “Ou Wee,” their seven-inch hello in 1986....“